Nik Powell is the name of a childhood friend of Richard's. Their first venture together is planting and raising four hundred Christmas trees at Tanyard Farms to sell the following second Christmas. Rabbits eat the tree sprigs, so they shoot and skin the rabbits to sell at a local butcher shop. Their second childhood venture is breeding and raising budgerigars that multiply too fast for local demand to keep up with. Richard asks Nik to join him at the Student when Jon returns to school in the fall of 1967. After working together for awhile, Nik becomes dissatisfied with the way Richard does business and tries to take it from him. Richard sees a memo about his plan and fires Nik, although they remain friends.
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